New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-27

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many other ways, the showing we have just
made would prove it.
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NIayor Hewitt hopes that before the end OF
the wear every tenement house which is unsuitcd
for healthy occupation will be vacated mat
would be an excellent piece Of work certainly;
but it is to he feared that the Mayor has taken
n bigger contract than he realizes.
The smell IN the Del artment of Justice IN WASH
! ngton does not improve with age, Mr.. PRESIDENT
Adyiccs from the Northwest indicate that Sparks
is the most rrotuberant feature OF poll'lc"i u''
cussion in those parts. Settlers WIZ have lived
for years on their claims are abandoning mem III
despair of obtaining their land owing TO his
noIicv of ncrsistent and unjust obstruction. Even
/ the Democrats say that he is keeping settlers
emf Of Dakota and other new sccuohS
because most of the immigration IS KfPup-
Ican and partisanship of SUCH RANK
ouality doesn't flourish in that climate. At'-
pcthcr Sparks appears TO be about the heaNl'St
load the Administration is wabblln@ under III
the remote and breezy West.
BY the way, there hasn't been so much t'iR
about boosting Uncle Randall out OF the Demo
cratic party as there was before the hchtuChS
Idea collapsed
The great trouble with the "favoue son
business Is that every state has faVorlte son.
and if all the favcritc tons secure PhShtcu
troth from their loving constituents nobody
favorite son will be able to get majority IN
the convention.
The last number Of John Swint0ns Iaper
has made its appearance and its editor saws good
nj cprIh "a
note of sadness in these farewclls which 1t Is
easy 70 understand The editor has spent four
vcars OF time and thousands Of dollars in the
effort 70 further n cause which he believes in
with all his heart and which he must now leave
70 others We never could commend Mr. Swlnton's
opinions and should be sorry - see them make
Roadway among workincmcn, but his sincerity
and honesty and his genuine symDathy with the
working classes no one can doubt He closes up
his enterprise Ina way rs Characteristic OF HIM
Ms It is rare lie returns 10 subscribers their
money for the uncNpircd term of their suhScrlp-
tons, or sends them another papcr. It's pity
all the worl;ingmcns leaders not equally honest.
one Of the funui, things in current politics
is the tender way in which the democratic and
Mugwump papers coddlc the IromhtoniatS' On
how they love thcmi
Tie President wa, quite justified in being angry
with the managers Of the INST Aurora fair for
announcing that hc had offered a prile for the
best set Of tripict~. when in fact he hid done
nothing II the kind. This was certainly an
nstoui-hiug liberty 10 take with the name OF
the President OF the United states.
Calf0rn.ans who have been sounding the praises
Of their orange groves NAV now see Themselves
rs others see them. The Others in the present
instance are the Italian Chamber Of Commerce.
That holy, after several months OF careful IN
vest CATION, has made elaborate r., ort on the
subject ~ the California citrus product. 1t IS
10 the eject that the soil and climate of that
state are admirably adapted to orange culture,
Santa Barbara County in particular producing the
fruit in every month Of the wear. The yearly
ycll AT present averages about 90 100000 bat
in response t. a demand tic state can readily
sup " from ten 10 thirty tines that number.
Indeed, the report declares that California Is
fully able e. supply the entire American market
with oranges. II would have teen interesting q
have comparison between California and Italian
oranges In respect to Gualu, but this /, not
given, The report state, cmthat ally. however,
what Will he most satisfactory to Califorulaus.
that the oranges Of the Pacific Stone are far
superior TO those Of Florida and are therefore
from the orange merchants Of Italy is praise
indeed, California
That excellent observation, Thou SHAFT not
steal was q arly not intended TO apply 70
the annexation OF railroads.
Mr.. Coghlan's announcement to Mrs. Lang
try's manager on Monday that hc could not find
bis dress suit and therefore should not be able
10 play on the following Thur~laN recalls Mr..
Kccly's inability on a certain occasion to run
lis famous motor because he hadn't a pail Of
water. Mr.. Coghhn might have hired dress
suit on tine Eowcry.
Some "bloody-shrt politicians" exchanged views
on the rcbcl-nag incident the other day in Central
Ncw-York. They were persons who had earned the
right To- wave the bloody shirt because they
were veterans Of the war and many Of them had
probably worn shirts Of that kind The Central
Ncw-lorll veterans, meeting AZ Utica, tclegraphcd
10 the veterans OF WAYNE County, at Sodus
Point, The captured flags. the price Of 100000
lives, must never be returned The RESPONSE
was; "AIpomattoX was hnality not COM
promise" Carry the news to-Gcneral Drum.